43 Business Ideas You can Start as a Hobby

Passion is widely known to be an important element of success. If you want to succeed in your business, you should put passion into it. For people who have not been into business, but already have passion or a hobby which they always love to do, they can turn that passion into business. There are also a lot of people who want to start a part-time or a home-based business which they can run while doing their daytime or fulltime job. Others also want to try their venture gradually until they are already ready to manage it around the clock. If you want to start a business easily and enthusiastically, here are 43 business ideas that you can start as a hobby.

1. Adventure, tour and travel – Do you love adventures and travelling? You can start this as a business by getting clients to join you.

2. Antique collection – Turn your collection into precious products for sale or for bidding online or offline. Auction them on eBay, Amazon, in your own website, or in the other online marketplaces.

3. Art painting – Promote your masterpiece in the market. You can also offer self-portraits for clients.

19. Graphic design – This is a common hobby and a service. But if you can stand from the crowd, this can be a lucrative business.

20. Herbal soap making – This idea has been for years. But since herbs are safer, these products still make it to the market.

21. Jewelry making and designing – You can start this for your own. But you can extend on designing jewelries for others.

22. Interior decoration – It’s great to design and decorate your own home. If you have an outstanding skill or talent, you can also offer your services to other homeowners.

23. Life coaching – Are you good in motivating and changing other lives for better. You can offer your time to clients and charge them for your coaching and consultancy services.

24. Magic show – Can you do some astonishing magic tricks? You can be on demand for many shows and events.

25. Local market research – If you are enthusiastic in making consumer research, you can provide this service to companies that need market data, such as consumers’ brand awareness and other statistics.

26. Music tutorial – Everybody loves music. If you’re a great singer, you can teach voice lessons to your clients. You can also teach how to play instruments, such as how to play the piano and guitar.

27. Personal fitness training – Train people to achieve their health and fitness goals. But you should achieve your own fitness goals first.

28. Photography – Photography is a great hobby. Yes, it can be a profitable business.

29. Proofreading – If you’re fun of reading and you have an excellent grammar, you can offer editing and proofreading services to clients.

30. Personal shopping – If you love to shop. Turn your passion to something you can earn of. You can also be a mystery shopper who can be hired by some companies who need some market data.

31. Pet breeding – You can breed exotic fish (in a legal way). You can also breed other common pets like cats and dogs.

32. Pet groomer – If you really love pets, you can also become a pet groomer, who makes dogs and other domesticated pets look cleaner and more beautiful.

33. Product review – You can review any product that you’ve actually used, such as books and gadgets. Make your book reading and gadget playing hobbies into services.

34. Recycling – If your hobby is making something out of junks, then recycling can be the business for you.

35. Poultry farming – You can start this as a hobby, then expand it to a full time business once you see something profitable.

36. Scrapbooking – This is a popular pastime in the United States. You can start scrapbooking your personal and family history. Then you can show it to your friends. If they honestly love it, you can start this as a business.

37. Sports training – Now that summer is fast approaching, you can share your skills in playing basketball, boxing, mixed martial arts, or any sports that people love to learn this summer and in any season.

38. Social media management – If your past time is lurking on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ and in any top social networking sites, you have probably earned great influence on those social media. There are companies who need their brand and products to be promoted in the social media. You can help and offer them services, like social media promotion and marketing.

39. T-shirt printing and painting – Put your talent in painting and designing on T-shirts you may sell to customers.

40. Toy making – Always feel young and live your childhood by making toy masterpieces.

41. Video making and editing – Enter the world of entertainment.

42. Website design and development – This is actually my hobby in the past. Now I already earned money from it.

43. Wood carving and sculpture – This require special skills. But if this is your longtime hobby, you can surely create great products out of wood, or even out of stone.

Victorino Abrugar is a business consultant, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur. He's the founder of Optixor, Inc., a digital marketing company based in the Philippines. Follow him on Twitter at @viclogic.